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According to reports, Iranian–Dutch political prisoner Zahra Bahrami, is under severe pressure by Intelligence Agency interrogators and the assistant Tehran Prosecutor Reshteh Ahmadi to confess to drug related charges in court.This political prisoner was arrested in the Ashura (December 27, 2009) protests and is interrogated almost on a daily basis. She is mentally tortured by interrogators who had in the past forced her under physical and mental torture to make false confessions about carrying narcotics. Interrogators have demanded that she confess in court headed by Judge Salavati that she was carrying and selling narcotics and have threatened that if she refuses, her death sentence will be carried out. These interrogations which started from some time ago are still in progress.This 46 year old political prisoner is a mother of two and has dual Dutch-Iranian nationality. She came to Iran to see her child and was arrested in the Ashura protests. She was then mentally and physically tortured while detained. Intelligence interrogators in the Sepah Cellblock in Gohardasht Prison and in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison have put her under severe pressure and torture and forced her into giving televised confessions against herself which was broadcasted from state-run TV. When intelligence agents realized that the political charges against her led to waves of international reaction against the Iranian regime, they charged her with carrying and selling narcotics…Bahrami is currently detained in the female cellblock in Evin Prison.